Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

To:A. I. RYKOV

Dictated:Dictated try phone on April 5, 1922Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

      Printed from a typewritten copy.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

      page523a.Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet ArchiveYou may freely copy, distribute,
	display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and
	commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet
	Archive” as your source.

ComradeRykovCopy to ComradeTsyurupaCopy to the C.P.C. Managing Department

Pleasepay attention to the concession of the AmericanHammer, who is now in Russia, asReinstein, who knows
him personally, has informed me.

AccordingtoMartens, we’ve already made one great
blunder, to put it mildly, namely: thegoodssent to
America under the contract withHammerby the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Trade turned out to be of bad
quality. We must demand information about this business both
from the P.C.F.T. and the S.E.C. and also from ComradeReinstein, who knowsHammerpersonally. We must see to
it that our obligations under this concession are performed
with absolute strictness and accuracy, and in general we
must pay greater attention to the whole
business.[1]

[1]SeeDocument 503 of this volume.—Ed.